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Large telecoms say small ISPs should be subject to Internet Code too

A few months ahead of the introduction of the CRTC’s Internet Code, scheduled for Jan. 31,, a grouping of the largest telecom companies in the country are asking the regulator to make the code apply to smaller internet service providers as well. 

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Telus subscriber adds offset slight ARPU pressure

Despite the summer’s volatility in the wireless market, with a rush of new offerings in “unlimited” plans and new phone financing schemes that threatened to put a damper on telecom wireless returns, Telus Corp. has managed to remain resilient.

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Quebecor says it cut gig speeds due to new wholesale rates

Quebecor Inc. executives confirmed on Thursday that its previously unexplained move to withdraw its gigabit internet offering was due to the CRTC’s decision to slash the wholesale rate at which resellers purchase bandwidth from incumbents. 

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Incumbent reaction to wholesale rates warning shot for fibre, conference hears

TORONTO — The aggressive way incumbent telecom companies reacted to the CRTC’s lowering of wholesale rates in August was a message that they plan to fight any moves to decrease wholesale rates for fibre-to-the-home networks, Laura Tribe, executive director for internet advocacy group OpenMedia told an industry conference Wednesday.

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If Corus gets to defer CanCon obligations, we should too: Rogers, Bell, Quebecor

Rogers Communications Inc.,  BCE Inc., and Quebecor Inc. have all told the CRTC that if the regulator allows Corus Entertainment Inc. to shift some of its CanCon requirements from one broadcast year into the next, then the regulator should let them do it to, according to interventions filed with the regulator this week.  

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Allarco’s Super Channel asked to justify its license renewal before the CRTC

GATINEAU — Either Allarco Entertainment 2008 Inc. is an essential part of the independent Canadian broadcasting landscape, critical to Canadian content producers, or it chronically falters on its Canadian programming expenditures, while short changing Canadian content producers through its financial difficulties, amounting to a consistent violation of the conditions of its broadcasting license. 

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Rogers and UBC turn on 5G research campus

Rogers Communications Inc. and the University of British Columbia said they have powered the first fully-functional 5G “smart campus” to test applications for the next-generation network. 

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Wholesale-based ISPs at a ‘critical’ crossroads: CNOC’s Stein

TORONTO — Smaller, wholesale-based internet service providers may be facing a whole new era next year, president of the Canadian Network Operators Consortium (CNOC) Matt Stein told an industry conference.

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Cell data tracking company continues lobby push, despite tough reception

A company that says its privacy-focused software app can tell employers exactly how their employees are using their phones at work said it hasn’t received support for its product in the country it was born in. 

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Donald Lizotte moves to CBC from Quebecor

Starting in February 2020, Donald Lizotte will take over as CBC/Radio-Canada’s general manager and chief revenue officer from Jean Mongeau.

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